Picture this image: 18,000 women
line up at Madison Square Garden in New York City. They pay as much
as $1,000 apiece to witness the spectacle. For the audience warm-up,
the women are bombarded with the word “Vagina!” Soon, the Vulva Choir
is singing the praises of their inner-vagina.

The play features a series of vignettes,
including one about a 13-year-old girl who is plied with alcohol and
raped -- by a woman. At the end, the girl revels in her new-found
liberation from heterosexuality: “I’ll never need to rely on a man…if
it was a rape, it was a good rape.”

This actually happened on February
10, 2001. Nothing here is made-up. The play, known as the Vagina Monologues,
wins the prestigious OBIE Award. The New York Times hails playwright
Eve Ensler as “the Messiah heralding the second wave of feminism.”

Since then, the Vagina Monologues
has been staged in front of hundreds of thousands of coeds at college
campuses around the country. Listening to women talk about their genitalia
is their way of celebrating Valentine’s Day. Some of them wear self-reassuring
T-shirts that say, “I love my vagina.”

On September 13 last, feminist
Eve Ensler invited former Playboy bunnie Gloria Steinem and others
to star in an event in New York called “Vaginas Vote, Chicks Rock.”
The event was designed to encourage voter registration among Democratic-leaning
women. Here are a few gems from Ensler’s address:

Ensler’s event was successful.
Seven weeks later, women turned out in record numbers. Many of them
voted for George W. Bush.

Most mental health professionals
would regard Miss Ensler’s obsession with her crotch as a treatable
condition. But now, a whole generation of women has come to believe
that all manner of lewd and indecent behavior is acceptable -- just
so long as it can be justified with feminist buzz words such as “liberation,”
“empowerment,” and “choice.”

Here are some recent examples:

In California, attorney Liana Johnsson
reached this insight (note the liberation theme here): “At some point,
men’s breasts became liberated and women’s didn’t.” So now Johnsson
is pushing the California Legislature to pass a law allowing women
and girls to “drop their tops” at California beaches and parks.

Did you spot the skillful use of
both the “choice” and “power” motifs in Miss Moss’ remarks?

But there’s more. Last year a teenager
marched into her school cafeteria in South Hadley, Mass. wearing only
a bra and sweat pants. According to principal Melodie Goodwin, “We
had girls fall out of their shirts in the sixth grade.” Now the
Michael E. Smith Middle School has tightened up its dress code.

Finally, let’s not forget to mention
those TV soft-porn hits like Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives.
No surprise, these shows are watched mostly by women.

During the former Reign of Patriarchy,
men sometimes regarded women in terms of their female anatomy. Most
persons agreed that wasn’t a very good thing. But it happened.

Then feminism came along and disposed
of the Patriarchy. Men were told to stop objectifying women.

So what happened? Women began to
objectify women.

Here’s the amazing part – many
intelligent women became convinced that it was good to be treated
as sex objects. In fact, they were willing to part with good money
to see a play that celebrated the rape of a 13-year-old girl.

In the past, the sexual degradation
of women was confined to the bedroom and the brothel. But now, gender
objectification permeates our culture. It is flaunted at college campuses,
on the Internet, on prime-time TV, and during Super Bowl half-time
shows. And it is done at the behest of women.

Carey Roberts is an analyst and commentator on
political correctness. His best-known work was an exposé on Marxism and
radical feminism. Mr. Roberts’ work has been cited on the Rush Limbaugh
show.

Besides serving as a regular contributor to NewsWithViews.com,
he has published in The Washington Times, LewRockwell.com, RenewAmerica.us,
ifeminists.net, Men’s News Daily, eco.freedom.org, The Federal Observer,
Opinion Editorials, and The Right Report.

Previously, he served on active duty in the Army,
was a professor of psychology, and was a citizen-lobbyist in the US Congress.
In his spare time he admires Norman Rockwell paintings, collects antiques,
and is an avid soccer fan. He now works as an independent researcher and
consultant.

The play features a series of vignettes,
including one about a 13-year-old girl who is plied with alcohol and raped
-- by a woman. At the end, the girl revels in her new-found liberation
from heterosexuality: “I’ll never need to rely on a man…if it was a rape,
it was a good rape.”